Overall Winners of Rolex 24 At Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring in Same Year (January 31, 2018)

A list of drivers who have won the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in the same year.

Overall Winners – Rolex 24 At Daytona/12 Hours of Sebring in Same Year
1966: Ken Miles/Lloyd Ruby
1968: Jo Siffert/Hans Herrmann
1972: Mario Andretti/Jacky Ickx
1973: Peter Gregg/Hurley Haywood
1982: John Paul Jr./John Paul Sr.
1985: A.J. Foyt/Bob Wollek
1994: Steve Millen
1996: Wayne Taylor/Scott Sharp/Jim Pace
1998: Didier Theys/Mauro Baldi/Gianpiero Moretti
2016: Scott Sharp/Johannes van Overbeek/Pipo Derani/Ed Brown
2017: Ricky Taylor/Jordan Taylor

Notes of Interest
- The Rolex 24 At Daytona/12 Hours of Sebring double (36 Hours of Florida sweep) has been accomplished only 11 times since 1962.
- A total of 24 drivers have won the Rolex 24 At Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring in the same year. Ricky and Jordan Taylor are the most recent drivers to accomplish the feat, in 2017.
- Scott Sharp is the only driver to win the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in the year more than once. He accomplished the feat in 1996 and 2016.
- A number of drivers also competed with the drivers above in one of the two races. For example, Vic Elford, Jochen Neerpasch and Rolf Stommelen were also part of the Rolex 24 winning team in 1968, but those three drivers were not part of the Sebring winning team.

- A number of drivers have also won both races in the same season but not overall, i.e., only in their class, or in some cases, overall in one of the races and class victory in the other race.

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